CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -routinely refuses to acknowledge their child’s cries or other shows of distress or fear. actively suppresses their child’s displays of emotion by telling them to stop crying, grow up, or toughen up. becomes angry or physically separates from a child when they show signs of fear or distress.

Detailed explanation-2: -Infants with insecure/resistant attachment are extremely distressed by the separations and cannot be soothed at reunions, essentially displaying much distress and angry resistance to interactions with the caregiver, which occurs in 8% of the general population (9).

Detailed explanation-3: -Avoidant attachment is represented by children who avoid their caregiver, showing no distress when the caregiver leaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Insecure avoidant attachment. Children who develop an ‘avoidant’ attachment pattern are thought to maintain proximity to their caregiver by ‘down-regulating’ their attachment behaviour: they appear to manage their own distress and do not strongly signal a need for comfort.